Antonio Esposito, known as Tony or Toni Esposito, is an Italian musician, singer-songwriter, and percussionist. Tony Esposito's music is inspired by sounds from many countries around the world, blended with tribal rhythms and melodies typical of Neapolitan music.

The originality of his approach can be found in the invention of unique instruments like the tamborder, an onomatopoeic sound from one of his most famous tracks, Kalimba de Luna, which Boney M. released a cover of in English almost simultaneously.

Before embarking on his own record label, Tony Esposito contributed, during the seventies, to the "rhythmic sound" of several Italian artists such as Pino Daniele, Edoardo Bennato, Alan Sorrenti, Juan Lorenzo, Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori, Gino Paoli, Roberto Vecchioni, Francesco Guccini, Eugenio Bennato, Claudio Rocchi, and Mauro Pelosi. Together with Tullio De Piscopo, James Senese, Joe Amoruso, Rino Zurzolo, and Fabio Forte, he helped coin the term "metropolitan blues," which finds one of its highest artistic expressions in Pino Daniele's 1981 album Vai mo’. After the nineties, Tony Esposito collaborated with many Italian artists. Notably, his live performances with Enrico Capuano are worth mentioning.

This group, along with many others from the Neapolitan hinterland (including Ernesto Vitolo, Gigi De Rienzo, Robert Fix, and Mark Harris), will be regarded for many years as the progenitor and reference point of the so-called "Napoli-power" (the new metropolitan blues-rock sound that incorporates funk, jazz, and world ethnic influences).

In the same years and in the following ones, Esposito collaborated with several international musicians including Don Cherry, Paul Buckmaster, Don Moye, Gato Barbieri, Eumir Deodato, Brian Auger, Gilberto Gil, Eddie Blackwell, Billy Cobham, Moncada, Gema Quatro, Seydou Kienou, and Naná Vasconcelos.